President Donald Trump, whose second term has been devoted to going it alone, makes his return to the Group of Seven in crisis mode after Israel attacked Iran.The G7 summit starting Sunday in the Canadian Rockies town of Kananaskis marks the first major global gathering of Trump’s second term, in which he has been even …
Edmonton’s Leon Draisaitl scored his second overtime winner of this Stanley Cup Final as the Oilers beat the Florida Panthers 5-4 to level the NHL championship series at two games apiece on Thursday.The 29-year-old German center scored his fourth overtime goal of the playoffs at 11:18 of the extra session to decide a roller coaster …
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Oil prices soared more than 12 percent and stocks sank Friday after Israel launched “preemptive” strikes on Iranian nuclear and military sites and warned of more to come, stoking fears of a full-blown war.Investors ran for the hills on news of the attacks and a warning from Tehran that its regional foe faced a “bitter …
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A London-bound passenger jet crashed in a residential area in the Indian city of Ahmedabad on Thursday, killing at least 265 people on board and on the ground — but one passenger has miraculously survived.An AFP journalist saw bodies being recovered from the crash site, and the back of the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner — which …
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A Boeing 787 Dreamliner carrying 242 people crashed on Thursday after taking off from the Indian city of Ahmedabad bound for London, with officials saying that just one person on the jet survived and at least 24 people on the ground died.Police said 265 bodies had been taken to hospital in the main city of …
The dollar plunged on Thursday after US President Donald Trump threatened higher unilateral tariffs on trade partners, and oil see-sawed as traders evaluated the probability behind reports that Israel could be gearing up to strike Iran.Stocks traded mixed as investors navigated the double whammy of returning trade uncertainty and geopolitical volatility, while Boeing’s share price …
A London-bound Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner carrying 242 people crashed on Thursday in the Indian city of Ahmedabad, with officials saying that just one person survived.Here is what we know so far:- What happened? -The Gatwick Airport-bound aeroplane left Ahmedabad, the main city of India’s Gujarat state, with 242 people on board.Air India’s flight 171 issued …
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner that crashed in India on Thursday is the pride of the US company’s catalogue for long-distance planes: a fuel-efficient, wide-body aircraft able to transport up to 330 people.- Lightweight -After first entering service in October 2011, with Japan’s All Nippon Airways, 2,598 of the planes have been ordered by more than …
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Air India’s London-bound flight 171 that crashed on Thursday with 242 people on board was a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, part of India’s bold push to radically expand its air industry sector.The growth of its economy has made India and its 1.4 billion people the world’s fourth-largest air market — domestic and international — with IATA …
Myanmar’s economy is set to shrink 2.5 percent in the 2025/26 financial year, largely as a result of March’s devastating magnitude-7.7 earthquake, the World Bank said on Thursday.The country’s economy had already been battered by four years of brutal civil war when the March 28 tremor hit, killing nearly 3,800 people and destroying swathes of …
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